Robert Menzies once said: “A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example”. He was talking about managers, but the same could apply to the members of his party in 2025, writes Amy Remeikis.

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This shouldn’t be new information to anyone who has been paying attention, but it is now undeniable. The Coalition is a fringe party, and should be treated as such.

It is hard to see where it goes from here.

In a 1954 lecture, then prime minister Robert Menzies said: “A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.”

He, of course, was talking about managers, but the same could apply to the members of his party in 2025.

You don’t have to go too far back to trace the origins of the intellectual malaise that afflicts the party. John Howard was unshakeably a conservative and paved the way for what we are seeing now. Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton were the inexorable end point of Howard’s style of leadership, each having further diluted the conservative value beliefs their mentor held dear, while grasping onto Howard’s single-eyed drive for personal power.

Like Tony Abbott before them, they........

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